Motivation and Outline.- Introduction to Optical Trapping.- Holographic Phase Contrast.- Counter-Propagating Traps by Optical Phase-Conjugation.- Non-diffracting Beams for the Three-Dimensional Moulding of Matter.- Ince-Gaussian Beams for the Optical Organisation of Microparticles.- Holographic Optical Tweezers.- Summary and Outlook.- Appendices.
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